Bonnie Hammer is the anti-Christ!!   

My distaste for the supposed "SciFi" channel has grown so strong over the past two years that I'd really love to see Dark Shadows go *anywhere* else...  I don't trust the shows I like on that channel...

As for cable, our cable company is just so awful I got tired of dealing with them...   So now I have *nothing*.  Gasp! 

I'm in a "who needs broadcast TV" mood these days, enjoying having nothing but books and DVDs and my computer...  And having a *real life*... 

But once local networks are available by satellite in my area (probably a year or two) then I'll probably be hooking up again...  Soapnet sounds great, and it sounds like they treat their shows (and the fans) with a measure of respect, unlike SciFi...

I understand your frustration, and I tend to agree that in places where the video and/or audio is badly damaged, it would have been better if they'd just shown us whatever blemishes they have...  Rather than make split-second cuts around the unusable footage...

But I can't strongly fault them...  It's a no-win situation...  And these are meant to be commercial releases, after all, not archival recordings...  I think you're being nit-picky in your insistence that the sets no longer deserve to be called "uncut" or "complete"...

The sets are already far from perfect, what with all the kinescopes, that missing episode near the end, etc...   So I'm just thrilled to have 'em...

I'm back too...  After an absence of six months or so...  (Technical trouble)  Glad to see the place up and running smoothly again!!!

Hopefully I can get back in sync with the rest of you now!    I've got the last 25 episodes or so on my TiVo and haven't found the viewing time yet...  

Like some others, I was nervous about all these preemptions, and the re-scheduling...  I'm relieved to hear that DS is on solid footing with Sci-Fi channel.  For now.  

BTW: I really, really hate the "suits"at Sci-Fi channel...  I will never forgive them for cancelling their own 2nd highest rated show (Farscape) with no warning and in the middle of a cliffhanger...  

I notice, too, that they showed Braveheart this weekend.  Huh??

I guess any similiarity between Sci-Fi channel and any real Sci-Fi is purely coincidental at this point...  They've actually been quoted saying "we have no interest in 'spaceship shows' anymore"....   They should just change their damn name to USA2 and quit insulting their genre audience.

There is obviously prerequisites for the players of Quentin's game. One that we saw today involved the craft of acting. What other qualifications does one need?

The ability to understand and follow complex, detailed directions -- from a mute.  

Well...    You look short enough!  

In order to get the job, you have to be much, much shorter than both Chris and Quentin.  Evidentally, one loses about a foot and a half when the moon grows full...

I'll go ahead and vote for Barnabas and the vampire curse, just to be contrary...    Since he (presumably) needed fresh victims all the time, and the wolf only kills during the full moon...  Plus, Angelique's curse also doomed anyone Barnabas would ever love -- which was part of your criteria...

But actually, I thought the dream curse was the most damaging -- because I had to watch it!!  

Still waiting on mine from www.dvdsoon.com -- Says on order, expected around 9/17...  I knew this might happen with a Canadian e-tailer, but darn...  

They do this with Canadian release dates all the time -- if supply is short, they re-route everything to the states, and push the release back the date by several weeks.  Sigh.  They just did this with the Outer Limits, too...  Guess that's what I get for only paying $39.  Great bargain, but much patience required.  Oh well.  I hadn't really finished Set #1 anyway -- not with Quentin showing up on SciFi...

(By the way -- I'm livid with SciFi channel for cancelling Farscape, their #1 show for the past 3 years...  Evidently they've changed their minds about having any original series at all -- it's cheaper to just buy repeats.  I'd skip the channel completely except for DS...)